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Winning Streak: NSFOCUS Researchers Honored With Microsoft Mitigation Bypass Bounty Award for Third Straight Year
[February 04, 2016]

Winning Streak: NSFOCUS Researchers Honored With Microsoft Mitigation Bypass Bounty Award for Third Straight Year


NSFOCUS IB today announced that two researchers from the company have been honored as part of the prestigious Microsoft (News - Alert) Mitigation Bypass Bounty and Bounty for Defense Program. This marks the third consecutive year in which NSFOCUS security professionals have been recognized for their achievements in this global forum, and their innovative contributions come at a time when cybercriminals launching DDoS and other assaults show no sign of backing down. In the newest listing, 10-year security veteran Yunhai Zhang-who won previously-has received two awards totaling $75,000, while his colleague Yu Yang has been granted $100,000.

"We're delighted to see our valued researchers getting the recognition they deserve for their pioneering work, and truly gratified that NSFOCUS is the only company to be in this very exclusive list for three years in a row," said Allan Thompson, COO of NSFOCUS IB. "The issues they've identified and solutions they've developed are needed now more than ever-the number of potential vulnerabilities and exploits keeps rising each year, and each takes its toll on organizations' brands and bottom lines. NSFOCUS is committed to developing the very best enterprise-level network security solutions and services, and the highly skilled researchers from our NSFOCUS Security Institute are at the forefront of those efforts."

Launched in 2013, the Microsoft Mitigation Bypass Bounty and Bounty for Defense Program gives talented researchers around the world an opportunity to submit a novel mitigation bypass against the latest Windows platform, and submit a defense idea that blocks an exploitation technique that currently bypasses the latest platform mitigations. Through this program, qualified mitigation bypass submissions are eligible for payments of up to $100,000, whil qualified defensive techniques are eligible for a bounty of up to $100,000.



About NSFOCUS IB

NSFOCUS IB is a wholly owned subsidiary of NSFOCUS, an enterprise network security provider, and is expanding operations in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Japan. The company is building on 15 years of proven success, innovation and trust, with offerings protecting four of the world's five largest banks, as well as organizations in insurance, retail, healthcare, critical infrastructure organizations, and government agencies. Enterprise- and carrier-grade products undergo rigorous evaluation and testing to Veracode VL4 certification, delivering powerful and effective threat management combined with advanced data analytics and intrusion prevention and detection capabilities. A research arm, the NSFOCUS Security Research Institution, is renowned technical institute that tracks and analyzes global intelligence while identifying new network vulnerabilities and security trends. NSFOCUS Global has technology and channel partners in more than 60 countries, and is a member of the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP), StopBadware.org, and the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA).


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